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Its purpose is to debug, dump or view digital stream information(e.g. digital television broadcasts) send via satellite, cable orterrestrial. Streams can be SI, PES or TS. Basically you can describedvbsnoop as a "swiss army knife" analyzing program for DVB, MHP, DSM-CCor MPEG - similar to TCP network sniffer programs like the old and famoussnoop on Sun Solaris or tcpdump on Linux (which is in fact a kind ofa clone of SunOS 'snoop'). You may also analyze offline mpeg streams,e.g. stored on DVD or mpeg2 movie files.

dvbsnoop is a command line based program. It's text output can be usedto for postprocessing via scripts or graphical analysis software likeMRTG or gnu-plot.